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Top 10 Pop Punk Albums of 2016

Our lord and savior Billie Joe Armstrong tweeted earlier this year, “my mission for 2016? to destroy the phrase ‘pop-punk’ forever.” It was a shocking sentiment from the Green Day frontman, given how close some of his lifelong tourmates are to the genre. New Found Glory, blink-182, and some would even say Green Day themselves have all been shelved as pop-punk at one time or another. So when did it become such a bad word? Perhaps that has to do with where pop-punk has been in the past decade and a half.

Some would say pop-punk died with the ’00s . Others say it hasn’t been around since the original line up of Taking Back Sunday. Or it hasn’t been good since the Golden Age of Drive-Thru Records. Pop-punk may have faded from favor, but the genre is anything but dead.

A recent crop of new bands that have been self-identifying proudly as pop-punk suggests that perhaps now in 2016 the genre is about to see a revival. The enthusiasm of these musicians is evidence that pop-punk is doing just fine. There’s even a t-shirt that says so. So go have a V8, Billie Joe. Here are our ten favorite pop-punk albums from 2016 that prove the genre is alive and well (oh, and you can download them all for free and listen without wi-fi on the Trebel app):